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Shivkumar
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Stale Extents

Dear Sirs;

We received the below alert from out alert monitoring system:

Logical volume /dev/vg00/lvol5 has STALE extents

We are using hpux 11.00.

Can anyone explain what this message means and how to fix this ?

Thanks,
Shiv
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A. Clay Stephenson
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Re: Stale Extents

It means that some of the extents are out of date -- usually caused by a disk failure or temporary loss of connectivity. Execute vgsync /dev/vg00 and then use lvdisplay -v /dev/vg00/lvol5 to examine the extents. Good extents are "current".
If it ain't broke, I can fix that.
Patrick Wallek
Honored Contributor

Re: Stale Extents

Usually you get this when a disk in a mirrored set goes bad.

I would suggest you check all the disks in VG00 and if one is bad, get it replaced.
Shivkumar
Super Advisor

Re: Stale Extents

I am getting warning alerts for all the logical volumes on the box. Is it some major issue ?

Thanks,
Shiv
Patrick Wallek
Honored Contributor

Re: Stale Extents

You almost surely have a bad disk. Suggest you contact HP to get it replaced.
Yogeeraj_1
Honored Contributor

Re: Stale Extents

hi shiv,

you can run stm (in graphics mode) to check the status of you disk.

if there are any further alert, immediately replace the disk

regards
yogeeraj
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Shivkumar
Super Advisor

Re: Stale Extents

What is command to check the bad disk using stm ?
Arunvijai_4
Honored Contributor

Re: Stale Extents

Shiv, Take a look at this about STM
http://docs.hp.com/en/diag/stm/help/expert/scsi_cdx.htm
http://docs.hp.com/en/J6374-90018/ch04s04.html
http://docs.hp.com/en/B6191-90015/ch04s01.html

-Arun
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